“If (someone is) too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity.” This is an example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in which our incompetence masks our ability to recognize our incompetence. If you know George W. Bush, phone him and ask him to read this too. – Burdell

As a guy who can barely doodle a recognizable stick figure, I’m constantly astonished by the beautiful things people can create out of the most unlikely materials…such as cut paper and Etch-A-Sketch. – BLiggy (with thanks to Paige for the Etch-A-Sketch link)

via Slashdot – “Media darling Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has been told by his lawyers to avoid the United States on the grounds that the US military would like to ask him a few questions about his source of the Collateral Murder video. Assange claims to be holding yet more video (of a US attack on a village that allegedly killed 140 civilians in May of 2009), as well as a quarter million sensitive cables relating to the current foreign war operations from the US State Department. Assange surfaced for the cameras in Brussels while speaking about the need for the freedom of information. Can he build a high enough profile to protect himself from danger?“. If you have not seen the “Collateral Murder” video, I will warn you that it’s very disturbing. Yet given the situation soldiers find themselves in, it’s also somehow completely understandable. – Burdell

BLiggy likes to take requests from the elderly, shut-ins, and little retarded boys. Today’s request comes from Deb in Calgary: “Please provide more videos like the SNL Punch before eating one. I laughed for days over that.“. Well Deb, here you go. However we here at BLig intergalactic HQ remind you that we will not honor any future requests unless they are submitted as delicate, yet robust haikus. – BLiggy
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg
Could that get funnier? The answer IMO is “yes…absolutely.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEuJAkTcJ8c